My DL650 V-Strom was supposed to be a touring stopgap while my FZ1 was down. The ADV style long distance comfort and practicality has spoiled me and now I can't go back. While I fell in love with the style of bike, I never fell in love with the bike itself. It's at about 80k km's now, and a recent mechanical failure (see my Colorado ride report) has convinced me to start thinking of a replacement sooner than later.
The criteria is as follows
- Must be near bulletproof, reliability comes above all else
- Something used, under 60-70k km's, ideally under 30k km's
- $10k ideal budget, could stretch for the right bike.
- ABS is a must, traction control would be nice
- Don't care about off road performance
- Must be comfortable for long distance slabbing, fun in the corners
- Ideally comes pre setup with panniers and the usual touring stuff
Ideally, I would just buy the defacto 1200GS, they just don't depreciate though. Not a bad thing, but keeps a reasonable one a good bit out of budget.
Currently on my mind are the following
- 2nd gen V-Strom 1000
- Yamaha Super Tenere
- Yamaha FJ09 (did a demo day on one and don't remember liking it, willing to give it another shot)
- KTM 1190 Adventure, briefly thought about it before a google search for problems brought me back to my senses.
- Ducati Multistrada, same as above
Thoughts, suggestions?
The criteria is as follows
- Must be near bulletproof, reliability comes above all else
- Something used, under 60-70k km's, ideally under 30k km's
- $10k ideal budget, could stretch for the right bike.
- ABS is a must, traction control would be nice
- Don't care about off road performance
- Must be comfortable for long distance slabbing, fun in the corners
- Ideally comes pre setup with panniers and the usual touring stuff
Ideally, I would just buy the defacto 1200GS, they just don't depreciate though. Not a bad thing, but keeps a reasonable one a good bit out of budget.
Currently on my mind are the following
- 2nd gen V-Strom 1000
- Yamaha Super Tenere
- Yamaha FJ09 (did a demo day on one and don't remember liking it, willing to give it another shot)
- KTM 1190 Adventure, briefly thought about it before a google search for problems brought me back to my senses.
- Ducati Multistrada, same as above
Thoughts, suggestions?